Company to distribute Brandon Routh-starrer in U.S.

Freestyle Releasing will facilitate the pic’s theatrical run, with film getting a wide theatrical release in the U.S. on April 29 under the newly-created Omni/FSR label, which will oversee marketing and P&A expenditures in conjunction with Omnilab Media and Cinemarket.

Based on the best-selling Italian horror comicbook, “Dylan Dog” stars Routh as the world’s only private investigator of the undead. Routh’s “Superman Returns” co-star Sam Huntington plays his assistant,while other cast members include Taye Diggs and Anita Briem.

Kevin Munroe directs from a script by Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly, who are currently writing “Doctor Strange” for Marvel.